Am 17.05.2012 16:20, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On 17.5.2012, at 16.46, Charles Marcus wrote: > >> On 2012-05-17 9:38 AM, Bill Cole <dovecot-20110...@billmail.scconsult.com> >> wrote: >>> A spammer claiming to be '"Tim Saarela" <tim.saar...@dovecot.fi>' is >>> sending out a pitch for "Enterprise Level Support" for Dovecot. The >>> address of mine which he hit is only ever used for this mailing list, so >>> it is clear that whatever the mechanism, this list is being harvested >>> for commercial leads. >> >> Chill, Bill... >> >> Tim is working closely with Timo, and I'm sure got Timo's permission to send >> that email to list subscribers. I'm already in discussions with Tim for some >> support for my main client's migration... > > > I was surprised that directly contacting people worked at all, but since it > has I thought I'd allow it and hope it wouldn't piss off too many people.. > There won't be more than that one mail, which you're free to just ignore. > > If we get enough funding we can hire more people to work on Dovecot (and > related projects), and that would be good for everyone. >
Hi Timo , writing gnu software and offering paid support to it ,is a wide spreaded, nothing special about it. I did and would ever pay you in support/consult big setups, i agree hire more people will make dovecot better. But some people are more sensible about gnu status of software and recieve business mail then others. So you got in a communication trap, but everyone who benefit from your hard work on dovecot, in the last years, should excuse unwanted disturb. Anyway you may use other distribution/notification ways in the future keeping clearly splitted whats gnu and whats business. However in real world there are always people which cant make lucky in whatever you do *g Finally many thanks to you for coding great software ! -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
